Xiaoting Li

Xiaoting Li's field of research is interactional linguistics, conversation analysis, and multimodal analysis. Her research focuses on how people use grammar, prosody, bodily-visual behaviors, and objects in the surround to make meaning and socialize in Chinese interaction. Her research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Chinese Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Kule Institute for Advanced Studies, and the University of Alberta. She received the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (2019-2021) and the DAAD fellowship (2008-2010). She was/is involved in international research networks such as the Scientific Network of Multimodality and Embodied Interaction, and the Research Network “International Linguistics”. Her recent publications include Interpersonal Touch in Conversational Joking (accepted, Research on Language and Social Interaction), Click-Initiated Self-Repair in Changing the Sequential Trajectory of Actions-in-Progress (accepted, Research on Language and Social Interaction), and Multimodality in Chinese Interaction (2019, co-edited with Tsuyoshi Ono, Mouton de Gruyter). Her current book project is Language, Body, and Action—A multimodal grammar of Mandarin (Cambridge University Press).